Maritime unions support German dockers’ strike over inflation

Leaders of shipping unions gathered in London expressed their solidarity with Germany’s 12,000 dock workers for their recent strike.

The German subsidiary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), ver.di is pushing for an annual, automatic inflation adjustment to be built into a renewed collective agreement with 58 ports and terminals.

“Rising prices for essential living expenses such as energy and food have become an unsustainable burden on German workers, especially for those...

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